The Venom Of The Viper

The Untold Story of Angola's Civil War

By: Michael Greene

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

With the rebel forces now on the run, Dani must now lead his elite unit through the swamps and jungles of east Angola to chase them down and eliminate them. The Black Rooster’s massacres of innocent people add to the time pressures. A lot is at stake, including his own life. Once again, Dani uses every means at his disposal to find and hire the right resources to achieve his objective, culminating in a nail-biting conclusion that will keep you gripped to the very end. Based on true events, the Chasing the Black Rooster series gives an inside look at the world of arms dealers, world powers, and soldiers for hire trying to cope with an impossible reality and striving to succeed at any price. Background: Angola's brutal civil war has been raging for twenty-five years. The struggle, which began as an ideological conflict, has become a bloody war for control of vast diamond and oil fields. Both sides use their own people as hostages, and the country is destroyed, its inhabitants murdered and exiled. Now, in early 1999, the Black Rooster flag of UNITA, controlled entirely by the charismatic Jonas Malheiro Savimbi, flies over all rural areas. Only a few cities still remain in the hands of Angola's Marxist government. Desperate, it turns to private companies to remove Savimbi from the scene and end the war. Their price: the output of Angola's rich oil fields.